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Spotlights 2006
- December
- Seeing and believing - 13/12/06
- Ivor Gaber reports on ESRC-funded research in the area of television, including the 'switchover' to digital TV, the medium's effect on children's behaviour, and to what extent television blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
- October
- Meeting the Millennium Development Goals - 26/10/06
- This week (26 October) sees the publication of UNESCO's annual report on the state of the world's education. As Ivor Gaber explains, particular attention is likely to be paid to the extent to which the developing world is making progress in achieving universal primary education - one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Nuclear leads a new energy revolution - 17/10/06
- On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the nuclear power station at Windscale, John Vidal reports on the new energy challenges and changes facing us in the future
- Working towards a discrimination-free zone - 02/10/06
- Britain has a paradoxical attitutude towards older people in the workplace, argues Alexandra Frean, but new employment legislation introduce this month should go some way to addressing this
- September
- Does prison work? - 29/09/06
- There has been much recent discussion over whether custodial sentences are really the best way of dealing with offenders at a time when Britain’s prisons are already overcrowded. With the latest monthly prison population figures for England and Wales due to be released at the end of this month, Jon Silverman asks - does prison work?
- Consent is crucial in the Human Tissue Act - 01/09/06
- "Appropriate consent" is the focus of new legislation under the Human Tissue Act which comes into force this month (1 September). But what does this mean for researchers and society? Mary Braid reports
- August
- Immigration Statistics - Where Lies the Truth? - 22/08/06
- New Government figures released this week (22 August) show that nearly 450,000 people have come to live in Britain since the last wave of EU expansion in 2004. Jon Silverman searches for the truth behind the statistics on immigration
- Exam anxiety: let's review the system, not the results - 17/08/06
- With A-Level results released this week (17 August), Mike Baker suggests we should be scrutinising the exam system, rather than the results
- Learning to read the phonics way - 11/08/06
- This Sunday (13 August) the new National Curriculum comes into force in England. As part of it, primary schools are to adopt the synthetic phonics system of teaching children how to read - though not all researchers are convinced that it’s the way ahead.
- Mercosur in Córdoba - a signpost to Latin America’s future? - 09/08/06
- Cuba's ailing president, Fidel Castro, who turns eighty this weekend (13 August), graced the meeting of the South American co-operation pact Córdoba in June with a rare appearance. However, memorable as Castro's visit was, the Mercosur meeting could well go down in history for other reasons, argues Hugh O'Shaughnessy
- July
- Difficult times ahead for baby boomers? - 18/07/06
- Bill Clinton and George W Bush are two ‘baby boomers’ who have done well - but the future may not be quite so rosy for others from their generation says Sophie Goodchild
- Latin America's Left turn - swerving back to the Right? - 14/07/06
- With mass protests in Mexico at the defeat of the Left-wing candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the country's recent election, Tim Hirsch examines whether or not Latin America really is veering to the Left
- Changing our behaviour - not the climate - 07/07/06
- Charles Clover takes a closer look at the role and cost involved for the individual in the Government's climate change targets
- 7/7 One Year On - 06/07/06
- A year ago this week, London was rocked by a series of bombs that left 52 people dead and many more injured. But, as Paul Lashmar argues, if we are not careful, civil liberties could end up becoming another casualty in the so-called 'war on terrorism'
- June
- Barclaycard and the plastic revolution - 30/06/06
- Forty years on from the first Barclaycard, credit cards are everywhere - but do they just encourage us to get into more debt, asks David Smith
Fathers - confused but doing their best - 16/06/06
Few times have been as exciting or as confusing to be a father. As Father's Day is celebrated this weekend (June 18), Sarah Womack reports on how the changing role of dads is under fresh scrutiny
- The World Cup: Globalisation's Festival of Sport - 09/06/06
With the kick-off this Friday (9 June), everyone, it seems, has World Cup fever. But, says David Conn, this international festival of sport has as much to do with global business as anything else
- The General Strike - 06/06/06
Strikes have been very much to the fore in recent weeks - not least with all-out action by Britain’s university lecturers having only narrowly been avoided. Robert Taylor looks back to the General Strike of 1926, a seminal moment in British industrial history, but one, he argues, that ultimately did little to change entrenched class and social divisions
- May
- Biofuels are booming in Brazil - 08/05/2006
This week (9 May) sees the fifth World Biofuels Conference. Until recently, the idea of powering modern economies from plant material seemed a rather marginal activity hyped up by agricultural interests and green enthusiasts. Now it is high on the agenda of international finance ministers
- Governing London - 04/05/2006
This week (4 May) England goes to the polls, with 4,360 council seats being contested in 144 local authorities. Here, Alan Pike gives a historical perspective on governance in London, and assesses the impact of the recent review of the London Mayor's powers
- March
- Twenty years after Wapping - 23/03/2006
Twenty years on from the violence at Wapping, David Aaronovitch considers the changes that have taken place in the UK media
- The relationship between trade and development - 17/03/2006
In the second weekend of March 2006, trade representatives from the world’s most powerful rich economic blocs met with the most dynamic of the emerging economies. Philip Thornton reviews the world trade situation and its implications for development
- 364 economists can be wrong - 14/03/2006
David Smith takes a retrospective look at monetary policy in the 1980s, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the "economists' revolt" in 1981
- February
- Centenary of the Labour Party - 28/02/2006
Peter Riddell looks back at the Labour Party's one hundred years of existence, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair
- The Work-Life Balance - have we got it right? - 24/02/2006
Do the British actually work too long? If so, is it creating problems? Ivor Gaber looks at some of the research and evidence surrounding, what some would call, the 'long hours culture'
- The Science of Love - 14/02/2006
- On Valentine’s Day thoughts turn to ‘love’ - but what is it, does it actually exist, and can social science help?
- Half a century since heroin banned - 10/02/2006
- In January 1956 greater restrictions were placed on the drug including a ban on its import and export. Sophie Goodchild looks at the effects of heroin and drug use today
- January
- Summits, forums and the world economy - 25/01/2006
- Today many of the world's political and business leaders will be convening in the Swiss mountains for the 25th annual World Economic Forum in Davos
- The art of happiness - 23/01/2006
- 23 January has been predicted to be the unhappiest day of 2006. Sarah Womack reflects on what it means to be happy
- 30 years of women's rights in the workplace - 12/01/2006
- Thirty years after the Sex Discrimination Act was passed in 1975, Polly Toynbee takes a look at how things have changed for women in the workplace
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